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ACHERON

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 143 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ACHERON  , in

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Greek
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mythology, the son of Gaea or
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Demeter . As a
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punishment for supplying the
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Titans with
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water in their contest with
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Zeus, he was turned into a
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river of Hades, over which departed souls were ferried by
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Charon . The name (meaning the river of " woe ") was eventually used to designate the whole of the
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lower
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world (
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Stobaeus, Ecl . Plays. i . 41, ยงยง 50, 54) .

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